Any suggestions???

[dexter0606]

I'm making some pens for our local Navy Club's 50th anniversary. Acrylic Sierras with the Club's logo decal.
Somewhere in the sanding/polishing stages I get dark pock marks in the white and I can't get them out.
Typically I turn the pen down on the lathe to finished size. Then I wet sand with 320 then 400 and then wet sand through the micromesh sheet grits up to 12000. Hut plastic polish to finish up.
I just finished an order of 12 similar pens using white wedding and didn't have an issue.I've done this style of pen before without issues but this is a new batch of white wedding that I'm using. Don't know if that's the problem or not.

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated

Jeff

 

[NewLondon88]

I can't really tell for sure (my eyes aren't so good anymore..) but it looks like
tiny pinholes filled with gray dust from the sandpaper or micromesh. OR maybe
even from your bushings.

I've done that myself and didn't see it till I photographed the pen and enlarged it
on the computer screen. I used an eraser pen (basically, it's an airbrush sized
sandblaster) and some 220 grit powder and blasted out the pinholes, filled with
a coat of CA and moved on. Came out great.

 

[dexter0606]

Makes sense. I'll give that a try

Thanks
Jeff